I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.

Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.

I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.

I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.

I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.

Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?

There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.